On this Labor Day in the United States, I celebrate work and express thanksgiving for the ability I have to do the work that I love. Labor Day Essay: An Ode To Work Labor Day as a nationwide celebration dates back to 1894; a day of recognition for workers and their contribution to society. A […]| Live and Let's Fly
Dawn’s chorus awakened her to the best summer event, the local bird show.| Life at No. 22
I originally wrote this essay a few years ago and never published it. At the time I felt like maybe I was being a bit melodramatic. My kids are older now (the one in the pic is twelve and in …| Roaming Rosie
On the one hand, what’s happening in the University of Chicago – the (supposedly temporary) suspension of recruitment to PhD programmes in Classics as well as other disciplines that require s…| Sphinx
6/9/34-11/26/24 Seven years without you, Dad. I’ve missed you every one of those days, but mostly what I feel now is what I felt literally the day you died: deep gratitude that you were my father. I remember being stunned by how immediately and viscerally I felt that. I’ll never be able to fully express ... Read more| A Design So Vast
Wow. To say I honestly can’t believe I’m turning 50 on Friday is an understatement. I suspect very few people actually feel the age they are but … I really feel abject disbelief that I am here. I am bewildered, awestruck, amazed. To be 50 and, I’ll be honest, at life in general. I texted ... Read more| A Design So Vast
Morning in the mouse house. Coffee in my favorite Ratio mug (thank you VJQ). Phoebe. Crossword. Matt is sleeping. Whit’s been gone all weekend. This is such a time of transition, hanging between what was and what will be. I guess it’s not a surprise I am feeling emotional and raw (Dr Thompson made me ... Read more| A Design So Vast
Thank you for writing something and leaving it up.| Mirrored W❄️rld
It's true. The biggest quality of life upgrade I've gotten myself this year is making the leap from pads to menstrual underwears. Now, if you're still reading, you may be thinking "but there are so many menstrual solution out there, how is this so revolutionary?". Which is great, honestly. That means you're bound to find something that suits you. It's revolutionary for me, because it works for me.| Mirrored W❄️rld
I miss tabling/boothing in an event. College exhibition days were always fun, getting to see what everyone was making and talking to people perusing what you...| Mirrored W❄️rld
Just a personal check-in on workouts, hunger, soreness, and learning to rest when needed.| Notes by JCProbably
The feed-forward network in an LLM processes context vectors one at a time. This feels like it would cause similar issues to the old fixed-length bottleneck, even though it almost certainly does not.| Giles' Blog
It is of course distressing to realise that demand for my opinions on Thucydides is limited… Just over a fortnight ago I embarked on one of those “One like, one X” social media things on Bluesky, and was initially quite overwhelmed – just as I thought I was starting to catch up with the number […]| Sphinx
“Generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning.” Uh huh. The key question about the new American Historical Association guiding principles on the use of Generative AI in history education is whether they have signed up to the idea that this is the inevitable, irresistible Future in a spirit of fanatical […]| Sphinx
Ten years or so ago, I had a business idea. This is not something that often happens – precisely twice in my life, in fact, as my entrepreneurial (aka opportunistic) approach to research idea…| Sphinx
A look at paralysis by analysis that I think stops people from getting out in the wild places. Read More ... Continue reading Paralysis by Analysis at PMags.com.| PMags.com
Some thoughts on maps, miles, and giving people the tools to see what they want to see. Read More ... Continue reading Not Gatekeeping – Guardrails at PMags.com.| PMags.com
A piece inspired by a recent article in the Florida Phoenix about a private corporation now controlling access to public lands. Read More ... Continue reading Pay to Play on Public Lands at PMags.com.| PMags.com
More thoughts about Whitman almost a decade later since I took my solo Walk Across Southern Utah. Read More ... Continue reading Whitman – Almost a decade later at PMags.com.| PMags.com
This is the summer of juicy ripe peaches, bags of cherries and blue cardboard punnets of fresh raspberries. All the fruits I love are at their peak here in this season. This is the summer of yoga teacher training: weekends spent at The Point in a cozy blue-walled studio, working through poses familiar and new. […]| cakes, tea and dreams
For people who knew me from college days onwards, it might be a surprise to learn that I used to be in drawing classes. Or that I draw at all.| Mirrored W❄️rld
I heard three different stories today:| Mirrored W❄️rld
Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often: I call it the mapping game.1| Idraluna Archives
Behind The ‘Monstrous Manual’: PART 3 | Tony DiTerlizzi
I truly hate the word "content" as it's used these days. The distillation of everything you do into something made for public consumption is extremely sad an...| Mirrored W❄️rld
You inherit a team mid-flight. You didn’t hire them. You didn’t set the culture. But now it’s yours—and the results are on you. Some leaders react with frustration. Others get to work. In this piec…| CodeKraft
Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), but the observations shared by colleagues who attended have crystallized some issues I’ve been wrestling with for years. I should note there’s a selection bias here: I’m the author of the 10 principles of self-sovereign identity, so my community tends to have strong opinions about...| Blockchain Commons
At times, these snapshot posts will consist of a collection of thoughts followed by words, with minimal imagery; feel free to use your imagination.| Life at No. 22
Every second of every hourLet your actions speak your will Raise your head up high Raise your head up high So the heavens hear you cry Light the brightest fire From the highest mountain So the whole world knows That … Continue reading →| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Every second of every hour Let your actions speak your will Raise your head up high Raise your head up high So the heavens hear you cry Light the brightest fire From the highest mountain So the whole world knows That your spirit can't be broken — VNV Nation, Resolution I love dancing. I've loved…| tacit.livejournal.com
What do you call a dreamer, avid bookworm, lover of love, and tortured soul turned writer? The epitome of a romantic, of course. The post The epitome of a romantic appeared first on Freelance in the City.| Freelance in the City
Introducing, Freelance in the City. It's time for something new and this brand new blank canvas is just what's needed!| Freelance in the City
He looked at the new homepage of the University of Warwick, and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that university senior management teams are no longer even remotely human. It’s not just the excessive use of mauve, or the aversion to definite pronouns, or the vacuous slogan. It’s not even the fact that the very […]| Sphinx
Well, I hope that the Roman environmental historians are all set for a bit of public engagement and explanation, because Reform UK, Durham Sturmbannabteilung, has decided to weaponise a bit of anci…| Sphinx
We celebrate not the trail, but the wild places it passes through. – Ray Jardine, PACIFIC CREST TRAIL HIKER’S HANDBOOK, 1996| PMags.com
Think this actually might be my first Initial Impressions post, but as this is a brand new pen I received through backing the KickStarter campaign and it will soon be available to buy outside of th…| dapprman
pexels.com| thewartburgwatch.com
Identify what you are able and willing to do, what you are willing to learn, and what you'd rather delegate.| Mirrored W❄️rld
Having reached the end of my account of the pilgrimage, it is finally time to share some of my reflections. The pilgrimage experience was a very humbling one, very symbolic of one’s sojourn o…| Inclina aurem cordis tui
Good games don't stop being good.| Mirrored W❄️rld
I spent my late teens and early twenties looking for the perfect system to manage my to-do list. , , you name it, along with a slew of software to go with th...| Mirrored W❄️rld
The grand tour continues. Hello Warszawa! Sorry, Wrocław! Is it time for Thucydides on atheism, or the lessons of history, or powerlessness, or something else entirely? Partly because I talk more happily from notes than reading a prepared text – not least because non-anglophones apparently enjoy listening to my old-fashioned BBC English regardless of whether […]| Sphinx
The Panopticon is here, people! At any rate for our youngest cat, the indefatigable Hector. I’m currently on a sort of academic road trip – if it’s Tuesday, it must be Wrocław; what am I supposed to be talking about at this conference..? – and because my wife gets anxious about the cats when I’m […]| Sphinx
Groggy. So groggy. I don’t know if this is the result of a really heavy week of work, or the weather, or the small glass of beer I had last night. Slept deeply with strange dreams that I don’t reme…| Sphinx
A bit of a history lesson from an old tea drinker here. Back when I first started drinking tea in earnest, around 1998 or so, I mostly hung out with older tea people here in Hong Kong at the Best Tea House. The crowd was mostly an older generation who grew up drinking dim sum […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
I recently treated myself to a few seasons of Columbo “photoplays”, as they were called in the early 70s. Look at the quality glimmers! Here are the “memes” I collected along the way. Aren’t we all?… ”It’s a whole different attitude.” Awkward feminism: “[It’s the first time someone told me] they liked me for my … Continue reading Memes from Columbo episodes| coralie's contemplations in markup
Léonie Watson tagged me last week in her blog questions entry “tag, you’re it!”. It’s a thing that has been going on since the start of the year, I think, where people are all answering the same set of questions about their blog, and then pass the baton. I’m in good company, being tagged by … Continue reading Tag, you’re it!| coralie's contemplations in markup
I realized this week that I seem to have a lot more interest in architecting than in execution. I also remembered that we become different persons based on what happens to us or the choices we have, even based on how good or bad we feel. Change may occur gradually after a long time or … Continue reading Architecting| coralie's contemplations in markup
Earlier this week, I made some of my Eastie rounds: depositing a check at the bank, buying stamps at the post office, grabbing a smoothie from Eagle Hill Cafe. I know the owners (two friendly siste…| cakes, tea and dreams
So remember when I wrote a post 7 years ago saying I was going to be carfree for life? Well this is a great example of why I usually try to “never say never.” I never would have imagine…| A Purple Life
Earlier this month, my Nomic group concluded a game of Committe Nomic (explained below) after six sessions. Just as I would set down a postmortem on a comple...| Idraluna Archives
In theory, and at least partly in practice, the fact that I’m on a two-year research fellowship means that I can adopt a somewhat laisser-faire, sufficient unto the day, mañana mañana attitude to a…| Sphinx
Old timers on this blog will remember the Longjing rule, in which I stated that one should not go to Hangzhou to buy Longjing – because the best tea has already left town. Recently, as I̵…| A Tea Addict's Journal
Right now, starting a debugging session using AI before googling can leave you stuck, especially with newer technologies| Giles' Blog
Jumping on a blog bandwagon pitched by Weird Writer of Roll to Doubt| Idraluna Archives
Agents are coming faster than ever and yet are still kind of hard to use?| www.coryzue.com
Normally when you see the name Moonman or Majohn you assume the pen will be a clone, blatantly breaking copyright, however on this occasion has Moonman/Majohn now effectively claimed the right to t…| dapprman
So, one thing I’ve discovered when writing a series is that people like to binge. Whether it’s books, television, food – you name it – binging is a thing right now. And now I am dealing with the added pressure of getting the next book out as soon as possible, because some people have read […]| Down the Forest Path
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal observation, contextual disclosure, and progressive validation. It can be implemented with the decentralized architecture of Gordian Envelopes to allow individuals to make verifiable statements while balancing privacy, accountability, and interpretability. At its core, fair witnessing is not about declaring truth, it’s about showing y...| Blockchain Commons
Link to discussion The story of the Thief class is well-known by now, with the idea being given to Gary …Continue reading →| Smoldering Wizard
The first two hundred metres after they turned off the highway were fine. Then Gregor’s head hit the roof of the car as it reached the end of the decent tarmac and lurched down at least five centim…| Sphinx
Travel delays are never fun but recently, I was reflecting on why I went from someone who was almost furious when delays happened to now being a chill little cucumber. And I think it all stems from…| A Purple Life
Spotify is very bad at searching for classical music recordings.| Luke Muehlhauser
Today I share a personal blog all about my trip in March to Hawaii, my first out-of-state school visits, my book, and roosters! Lots and lots of roosters!| Jena Benton
In Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, one of my favourite novels of recent years, a mysterious and rather shady acquaintance of the narrator establishes a clinic for people suffering from Alzheimer’…| Sphinx
Unlike Thucydides, we made it to Amphipolis! Yes, I have been waiting over a year to make this joke.| Sphinx
It’s always interesting to realise how much I’ve unconsciously and unquestionably absorbed a set of assumptions. To judge from this week’s visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens with…| Sphinx
Thucydides of course anticipated the dynamics of social media.* On the one hand, there is the democratisation of opinion, with every Athenian citizen having not just a right but a duty to contribut…| Sphinx
You can’t spend a lot of time thinking about the modern reception of Thucydides without engaging with his place in Professional Military Education in the United States, which is plausibly responsib…| Sphinx
Well, it finally happened. But like a lot of things in life, how it happened was a complete surprise. Of all the reasons I suspected that I would settle down again, such as getting tired of traveli…| A Purple Life
A blog post about how Religion in D&D and other Fantasy RPGs approaches polytheism in the wrong way and how to fix that in order to have more mystery and adventure in your game sessions.| Widdershins Wanderings
Just six months since I last posted about what is on my desk and there has been a sudden growth. Part was a result of inking some pens to allow a newcomer to the fountain pen world to try a selecti…| dapprman
In early 2025, Blockchain Commons architected and engineered a major project for the Zcash blockchain: the ZeWIF specification that allows all of its wallets to interoperate. Interoperability is something that I consider vitally important for a technological ecosystem, so I was thrilled that Blockchain Commons could improve interoperability for Zcash. Here’s a bit more on why, what Blockchain Commons did for Zcash, and what I’d like to do for other technological communities. The Limits of...| Blockchain Commons
Thucydides may not be a wholly uncelebrated author, but it is rare that his name occurs in contexts outside politics and history – let alone in poetry or song; and so one of the rarer but not…| Sphinx
While I’m in Taiwan I’ve been having tea a few times with Alex from Taiwan Tea Odyssey. In our conversations over random teas, obviously one of the topics that would come up is vendors.…| A Tea Addict's Journal
New job? Well, time for a new keyboard too!| The Haranguer
It’s been a while since I’ve let my thoughts wander freely on the page. Somewhere along the way, I began to avoid writing—not intentionally, but gradually, like slipping into silence without realiz…| Void Thoughts
Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William Shatner could not find him on Mastodon. His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to be found by Captain Kirk himself! The| Songs on the Security of Networks
Five lines of JSON can now replace multi-million dollar SaaS companies.| www.coryzue.com
Notes from the Weekend & this Week’s Links 07.04.25 - inspirational links from around the interwebs, what we were up to this weekend| This Is Glamorous (TIG)
Over the years I’ve had some changes in what I believed in. I googled blending on this blog and it seems like last time I talked about it extensively was some (many) years ago. It’s pro…| A Tea Addict's Journal
When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary of Git, these questions are more important than ever. Obviously, Git lays the foundation for trust in software releases with its ability to sign commits, but the trust of the system is unfortunately shallow. Untrusted content can be merged into a trusted repo, commit histories can be rewritten, and trust can’t be reliably extended into t...| Blockchain Commons
Tl;dr: massively over-interpreting a throwaway comment and extending a metaphor way beyond any reasonable point…| Sphinx
Over the last year or so, like other academics, I’ve received occasional emails from different publishers asking whether I’d be willing for my work to be included in any deal they might sign with G…| Sphinx
I am reasonably confident that my little brother does not read this blog, and nor does anyone who is likely to mention it to him. This is important, because I wouldn’t want him to think I was ungra…| Sphinx
Why dropout is kind of like the mandatory vacation policies financial firms have| Giles' Blog
This is the 19th year this blog has been in existence, which, frankly, is a long time, even if the past few years it’s more of a ghoul and less of an active blog. The reason I still pay for hosting to keep all this up is because, every so often, people would tell me […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
A blog post about how to handle death in OSR games, and some alternatives that are more dramatic than instantly killing a Player Character.| Widdershins Wanderings
Image taken from the Magic Tree House anime. Can you believe they didn't bring this thing over to the US? Missed opportunity.| Widdershins Wanderings
A play report and general musings after running two game sessions of *The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford* using Cairn 2e for some middle schoolers at my school.| Widdershins Wanderings
A new billboard appeared recently next to the grocery store where I do most of my shopping. Image by author I don’t mean the “now leasing” sign, but the one next to it. The one with the country singer on it. Back when I was in middle school in Venango, Nebraska, I didn’t know a thing about Dolly…| tacit.livejournal.com
As the apeirokinetic pantoustasis rolls ever onward, it is increasingly clear that this must be the darkest timeline.* It is at any rate the stupidest. Reason, analysis and theory have little purch…| Sphinx
The name of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff recurred time and again in the conference on Altertumswissenschaft and Historismus I was attending last week in London (one of the most intellectually…| Sphinx
I am sure most of you are aware and hopefully many near enough attending, but it is the London Pen …Continue reading →| dapprman
Although it might seem that AI will make it pointless, I still think it's worth blogging.| Giles' Blog
Learning in public helps me grow as an engineer and seems to benefit others too. Here's why I should do more.| Giles' Blog
I spent two hours figuring this out so you don't have to.| Cory Zue | Full-Stack Developer, Maker of Products, and Solopreneur
I made an app that lets you create a compressed view of your life.| Cory Zue | Full-Stack Developer, Maker of Products, and Solopreneur
Right now I’m sitting in one of my happy places on the Strath campus, doing a bit of tidying and sorting admin as the spring term begins.| Hi, I'm Heather Burns
